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"Colin from Accounting": the problem with this fun series - it's just too short - voila! culture

2023-02-27T06:22:06.320Z


The Australian romantic comedy is an incredibly cute viewing option, full of charming (and embarrassing) moments and captivating characters, including the main couple, who also created the series Vanesh


Trailer for the series "Colin from Accounting" (BINGE)

If all you want these days is to burrow under the covers in front of the TV and forget about the world with some light and non-committal series, then here comes "Colleen from Accounting", an Australian series that airs in bites, and delivers the goods.

You can count on the Australians to provide us with series that are simply cute, with completely enjoyable plots and charming characters, and "Colin from Accounting" is just that.

This is an entertaining romantic comedy, about a man and a woman who met in stupid circumstances and continued to be involved in each other's lives for illogical reasons that would not stand the test of reality, but meet the low bar of the rules of romantic comedy.

Although it doesn't have much point, it's a fun series that's perfect for a quick binge.

The far-fetched romantic story begins when Ashley, a medical student, walks down the street and exchanges glances with Patrick, the owner of a trendy but not very profitable brewery.

In a moment of spontaneity, she distracts Patrick while he's driving, causing him to hit the dog with his car.

Now these two complete strangers have an injured dog in common, and against their will they have to decide how they fit into each other's lives and care for that dog.

As in any good romantic comedy, at first they don't get along and argue all the time.

Patrick thinks Ashley is flighty and irresponsible, Ashley thinks Patrick is too square, and both think the other is more responsible for the accident than they are.

But when they start to relax a little and feel comfortable around each other, they find that they actually get along.

When they are at their best, they exchange witticisms and make each other laugh, and you can see that despite their differences, which mainly revolve around the fact that there is an age gap of more than a decade between them, they are pretty much on the same page.




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Situations that meet the low plausibility threshold of a romantic comedy.

"Colin from accounting" (Photo: Public Relations)

In the first episode they decide what will be the name of the dog they adopted together against their will.

They both agree that in no way can you give him a "cute" dog name, like "Coco" or "Princess", and he needs a strong and serious human name.

And so they collectively give him the name "Colin from Payments Accounting, who works on the big merger".

The fact that this is the name of the series reinforces the impression created, that it is clear to all of us that Colin is just a scripted excuse to bring two strangers into a situation where they can fall in love with each other.

Colin is their meet cute and we as viewers get it very quickly, and as the episodes progress it becomes quite logical that the lives of these two start to mix, even though they met in a situation reminiscent of an episode of "Seinfeld".



The scene of naming the dog is one of many charming moments in this series, which takes almost nothing too seriously.

It's a situation comedy, and most of the situations evoke empathy, although the series also doesn't want to show us toilet-humor and scenes that come to disgust the viewer, and make us feel embarrassed every second.

On the other side of the scale, we are presented with the only "heavy" theme in the series - Ashley's complex relationship with her mother, through scenes that evoke a different kind of discomfort, one of empathy for Ashley, who stands helplessly in the face of her mother's insensitive behavior.

And even these moments were written with sarcastic humor that reacts to the situation.

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Captivating supporting characters.

"Colin from accounting" (Photo: Public Relations)

"Colin" is populated by captivating characters that reinforce the excellent performance of the main couple.

As in any classic rom-com, each of the partners must have a good friend or a supportive girlfriend to whom you can come and complain, or get a perspective on what's going on, or who will be in favor of the relationship that hasn't even developed here yet, or who will warn that you should run away like fire.

We have a great cast of supporting characters here who do just that.



The casting of the series works in its favor, because when we only have eight episodes with these people, it helps a lot when the characters are written in a sharp and clear manner and played gracefully, so that the viewers immediately understand who they are and what drives them, and feel as quickly as possible that they know and like them.

This is true for both the main characters and those who support them.




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Natural chemistry.

Harriet Dyer and Patrick Bermall, "Colin from Accounting" (Photo: Public Relations)

The series was created by Harriet Dyer and Patrick Barmall (known among others for series such as "Glitch" and the successful "Love from Birth").

Dyer and Bramal are a married couple, and they are also the ones who play the two main roles.

Maybe that explains a large part of what works in this series.

It seems that they have written a series for themselves, which works on their shared humor and the chemistry that naturally exists between them.

For example, the jokes about the age gap between them, when Gordon makes a reference to something everyone knows (say, "When Harry met Sally"), and is surprised to find out that Ashley's generation hasn't heard of it ("Who are these, your friends?" she asks), are especially amusing when you consider This is the reality of the creative couple.



At the moment, the series only has one season, with an aspiration for another season that will continue to follow the couple, and it's a good thing, because the ending leaves a strong feeling of "What, it's over?".

The pace of the series is uneven, so that after we got the unreliable frame story and we already started to feel comfortable in the different worlds the couple come from, when we already like the supporting characters and are invested in the fate of the couple (not to mention the fate of Colin from accounting, the cutest dog), suddenly We reach the penultimate episode, and it turns out that the series is too short.

We are left with the feeling that it is time to expand in another episode or two before it is all over, and it would have been nice to see Patrick and Ashley try to fit into each other's lives a little more before the season - maybe the series - ends.

But apart from the fact that we were left with a taste for more, there really isn't much to complain about, and all that remains is to enjoy this refreshing comedy and all the cool characters that populate it.

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